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Essential Guide to Social Impact Assessment: Key Principles and Components

This World Café covers the definition and importance of social impact assessment, exploring both positive and negative consequences of interventions. Learn the essential components, such as developing community profiles and actionable strategies to engage stakeholders effectively. Discover how social factors intertwine with environmental considerations to ensure project sustainability.

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Essential Guide to Social Impact Assessment: Key Principles and Components

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  1. 5. Impact Assessment World Café: Social impact assessment Location  Month Year

  2. Definition of social impact assessment Social factors are included in the definition of environment: “Environment…means the natural and physical environment.” - 22 CFR 216 and ADS 204.6 Social impact assessment is “a process that will analyze, monitor, and manage the intended and unintended social consequences, both positive and negative, of planned interventions and social change processes invoked by those interventions.” • International Principles for Social Impact Assessment World Café

  3. Importance of social impact assessment • Exposes the full range of consequences of a project, plan, or program • May generate benefits • Increases the amount of input • Promotes project sustainability World Café

  4. Essential components of social impact assessment • Develop a community profile • Engage the community and stakeholders • Develop achievable strategies World Café

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